Recent content by sprightly

I took this to mean Maddie and that the aunt was saying it sort of tongue-in-cheek, not super-worried yet, just like, "Yeah, of course TODAY of all days she forgot her phone!" I have a 12-year-old with ADHD, and she forgets her phone constantly, which normally is fine but would definitely be an...

This reminds me so much of Kiely Rodni, with people so completely desperate to believe in some sort of grand conspiracy (in which an extremely tall adult male, whose cell phone and watch simultaneously go dead at the same time while he is very near to water and very drunk, was somehow ...

DBM (wrong thread).

According to this article on CNN, the ship did drop its anchor. I'm honestly impressed by how quickly the ship and its crew acted. I can't imagine how scary it would be to be on a ship that size and realize you had no control over it...

"Eight people are believed to have fallen into the water during the collapse, said Paul Wiedefeld, Maryland’s transportation secretary. All eight were part of a construction crew filling potholes. Six of those people are still missing, he said. ... A reporter asked if officials thought anyone...

I had a friend go into the Mississippi River on March 22. Texas Equusearch came and used sonar to find his body under a bunch of debris, but there was a big storm before his body could be recovered from that location, and his body broke free and went missing again. His poor mother just wanted to...

I don't think I was the first to say it, but I said it because I'm from the South and we prefer polite euphemisms like "overserved." I wasn't thinking of it in a liability context!

I don't necessarily see the actual time of day as relevant. A bar could be "late" in cutting someone off at 10:30 a.m. if they're already way overserved. I'm not denying the role of personal responsibility here, but with as drunk as he looks in those videos, they WERE late in cutting him off, no...

When one of my closest friends went missing in 2011, Tim Miller came and helped until we located his body in the Mississippi River. He is an incredible human; I have tremendous respect for him and for his organization.

What is going on in the photo where his face is being held by gloved hands? It's the one on the top row. Is he being non-compliant? Is he still coming around from an OD? Both? What on earth is happening there? (Screenshot below is from this story.)

I think someone here figured out it was for Yellow Claw, which is, per Wikipedia, "a Dutch DJ and record production duo from Amsterdam." I'm not going to expound on what I think the "MF" in the middle is supposed to stand for, but I have my guesses ... :)

I don't think you can judge whether a child was abused and/or neglected based on pictures on social media. I am not speculating as to whether Audrii was or was not well-cared-for, but I don't think you can see the full scope of anyone's life just from their outward presentation. I have...

I keep seeing posts saying Audrii never had a shot -- and I totally get why people are saying that and I'm not calling anyone out for saying it because I 100 percent understand and empathize with that sense of absolute fury at how many people failed to protect this precious child. But I just...

Best guess? To make sure they were alert for the drive home. Maybe JW, already being home, chose not to partake.

Some people (not here, but elsewhere on the internet) seem to desperately want this to be a story full of intrigue and dastardly deeds instead of ... a tragic and sadly common everyday occurrence. This is turning out to be exactly what it looked like from the start: pretty basic all-American...